Well, yesterday was Shakespeare’s 444th. Several blogs have related lists and links. Semicolon has a long list, with a nice meme from a while back.
Let me pass on a recommendation from Terry Teachout on strong biographies. He says Park Honan’s Shakespeare: A Life is one of the best on the bard.
Do you think a Manga version of Shakespeare’s plays would inspire your young man or woman? CliffsNotes has four plays available for your perusal.
Earlier this month, I posted a few quotation quizzes asking if the phrase came from Shakespeare or the KJV Bible. If you missed it then, you can find it here.
And from our Science desk, we may have found an avid Shakespeare fan among the other primates.
I’ve just seen the quote’Text is greatly abridged, so reading these isn’t tedious torture’ We are hoping that reading our unabridged versions won’t be torture either! Have a look at http://www.classicalcomics.com and let me have your feedback.